We developped a new protocol to analyse macroevolutionary landscape based on multivariate phenotypic data1.

We applied this protocol to short-necked plesiosaurians; this page illustrates a visualisation of the macroevolutionary landscape, produced using plotly and R markdown.

Macroevolutionary landscape

Craniodental data, NMDS

References

1. Fischer, V. et al. The macroevolutionary landscape of short-necked plesiosaurians. Scientific reports 1–12 (2020) doi:10.1038/s41598-020-73413-5.